Last Friday night, Savannah had the best game of her life. She skated well with the puck, made some awesome moves and even scored a goal. They played Fort Francis out of Canada. One of her coaches even sent Richard a text message saying how well she played and that he was really proud of her. Even some of the other parents made comments to me and Richard about how well she played.
Unfortunately I missed the game.
I did see her play against Fort Francis the following day, and she skated well, but no goals during this game.
The 14U team is headed for Regions this coming weekend in Roseau. The first game is Saturday at noon against Moorhead (whom we have beat twice) and from there it will depend on if we win or lose.
For all of you out there who are interested the radio station will be carrying the games. Log on to kkradionetwork.com and click on the Coyote 102.5 logo and the game will be streaming on the Internet.
Wish them luck!!! If they come in 1st or 2nd from Regions they will be going to the state playoffs later this month.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Hockey Tournaments
Today, well yesterday as it is 5am while I am writing this, the girls had 2 hockey games each. We are in Moorhead, MN for a weekend tournament for both 14U and 12U. Maddie and Paige did ok, winning their first game but losing their second game. Savannah lost both of her games.
Let me rant a little about Savannah's second game today. Bemidji played the Portage Terriers from Canada. End score Portage 8 Bemidji 0. The refs really stunk...they called everything and anything, I stopped counting at about 12 penalties on our team alone. At one point we had three in the box..when the Refs stopped the game and couldn't for the life of them decide which players should be on the ice and which should still be on the bench. Play was stopped for a good 3-4 minutes while the refs kept changing players on the ice with players in the box??? At one point one of our parents yelled "get out your rule books ref, you have no clue what you are doing. " At that point I thought for sure that we would get called for heckling the refs, but we didn't.
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The end result is that it was a very hard game to watch. Yes the Portage team had some awesome beautiful goals and did out play us. But the penalties were being called for things that most refs let slide. Even the Portage parents were complaining. At another point a parent mentioned calling in the tournament director and making a complaint.....I just think that next year, maybe we should remember this and choose not to attend this tournament next year.
I ended up leaving, halfway through the 2nd period. It was just too painful for me, as a mom to watch. The girls skated hard and were really trying and I can't say that effort was an issue. The other team just had better players. I hope that our girls take something away from this experience and make it a positive one regardless of the other idiots on the ice.
I hope that our team looks at each other and strives to work harder to hone their skills and to work together as a team and maybe next year we can skate on the level that I saw Portage skate on today.
Let me rant a little about Savannah's second game today. Bemidji played the Portage Terriers from Canada. End score Portage 8 Bemidji 0. The refs really stunk...they called everything and anything, I stopped counting at about 12 penalties on our team alone. At one point we had three in the box..when the Refs stopped the game and couldn't for the life of them decide which players should be on the ice and which should still be on the bench. Play was stopped for a good 3-4 minutes while the refs kept changing players on the ice with players in the box??? At one point one of our parents yelled "get out your rule books ref, you have no clue what you are doing. " At that point I thought for sure that we would get called for heckling the refs, but we didn't.
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The end result is that it was a very hard game to watch. Yes the Portage team had some awesome beautiful goals and did out play us. But the penalties were being called for things that most refs let slide. Even the Portage parents were complaining. At another point a parent mentioned calling in the tournament director and making a complaint.....I just think that next year, maybe we should remember this and choose not to attend this tournament next year.
I ended up leaving, halfway through the 2nd period. It was just too painful for me, as a mom to watch. The girls skated hard and were really trying and I can't say that effort was an issue. The other team just had better players. I hope that our girls take something away from this experience and make it a positive one regardless of the other idiots on the ice.
I hope that our team looks at each other and strives to work harder to hone their skills and to work together as a team and maybe next year we can skate on the level that I saw Portage skate on today.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Ziggy
Or Ziggers as we call him. The "miracle cat".
In July of 2009, Madison had a friend from another town sleep over as a belated birthday thing. This friend happened to have kittens in their barn. I said we could go and look as we would pick up the friend anyway. The friend had an 11 week old black and white female that she had kind of picked out for Madison. But when we walked into the barn my gaze was immediately fixed upon a much smaller about 6 week old black and white kitten sleeping in a wagon. Madison and I discussed it, and after finding out that he was a boy, decided to get a younger kitten for her to bond with.
I had Ziggy in my bedroom for the first few days. He didn't particularly like our dog Dakota. A dog from his previous home killed his brother, so I don't blame him. Ziggy was extremely affectionate, going from my husband to me, back and forth and would nudge our faces with his nose. We would tell him....yes Ziggy I love you too.
A few weeks after we got Ziggy he started to walk funny. He wasn't using one of his back legs. It was obviously painful for him as he cried when touched the wrong way. We decided just to watch it and see if it didn't just get better on it's own. The next morning before leaving for work, I checked on him in Maddie's room. He was hot with a fever, I took his temperature and his temp was 105 (usual 101 or 102). I had my husband drop him off at the vet with instructions to call me at work when the vet had looked at him.
I received a call from the vet in the late morning. He said that the x-ray showed that the hip was dislocated from the joint. We could watch it for 2 weeks and see if it improved, but his experience with these things said that this possibility was very slim. He may need surgery to fix the joint. The vet had not been told about the fever, but said he would check it out and give him an antibiotic shot that would work for 2 weeks. OK, at this point I lost it. We had fallen in love with this sweet little kitten and now, I was going to have to tell my daughter that we may have to put him down because I could not afford $1200 for surgery. The next day, I did some phone calling, I knew the vet tech at the clinic and she had not worked the day before. She was able to tell me that she could "bundle" things and ended up quoting me around $600. We would only have to pay half and the rest could be put on payments. So I had a plan, this was maybe doable. My husband didn't want to discuss it, stating...he might get better. I picked him up after work that day and Madison placed him in a box she made with his name all over it and "my little warrior" and "Jesus will heal you". He stayed in the box only for about 2 days, on the 3rd day he was walking more normally and by day 5...he was crawling up the screens on the windows again. I knew the hip had to be back in, he was bounding all over.
10 days later I took him into the vet to recheck the hip. I told the vet what I thought....that the hip HAD to be back in. Sure enough. The x-rays showed a perfect hip. The vet was pretty surprised. I think he had an infection in the hip which forced it out of the joint and the antibiotic shot cleared it up and allowed the hip to move back.
Madison and Ziggy.
Ziggy is a very strange cat. He LOVES water. He likes to drink out of the faucet, watch you shower or bathe and hops up on the toilet after it is flushed to watch the water go down.
Playing with his water dish.
Each animal is very different. And they each add something to our lives, what that is....maybe only the animal knows.
In July of 2009, Madison had a friend from another town sleep over as a belated birthday thing. This friend happened to have kittens in their barn. I said we could go and look as we would pick up the friend anyway. The friend had an 11 week old black and white female that she had kind of picked out for Madison. But when we walked into the barn my gaze was immediately fixed upon a much smaller about 6 week old black and white kitten sleeping in a wagon. Madison and I discussed it, and after finding out that he was a boy, decided to get a younger kitten for her to bond with.
A few weeks after we got Ziggy he started to walk funny. He wasn't using one of his back legs. It was obviously painful for him as he cried when touched the wrong way. We decided just to watch it and see if it didn't just get better on it's own. The next morning before leaving for work, I checked on him in Maddie's room. He was hot with a fever, I took his temperature and his temp was 105 (usual 101 or 102). I had my husband drop him off at the vet with instructions to call me at work when the vet had looked at him.
I received a call from the vet in the late morning. He said that the x-ray showed that the hip was dislocated from the joint. We could watch it for 2 weeks and see if it improved, but his experience with these things said that this possibility was very slim. He may need surgery to fix the joint. The vet had not been told about the fever, but said he would check it out and give him an antibiotic shot that would work for 2 weeks. OK, at this point I lost it. We had fallen in love with this sweet little kitten and now, I was going to have to tell my daughter that we may have to put him down because I could not afford $1200 for surgery. The next day, I did some phone calling, I knew the vet tech at the clinic and she had not worked the day before. She was able to tell me that she could "bundle" things and ended up quoting me around $600. We would only have to pay half and the rest could be put on payments. So I had a plan, this was maybe doable. My husband didn't want to discuss it, stating...he might get better. I picked him up after work that day and Madison placed him in a box she made with his name all over it and "my little warrior" and "Jesus will heal you". He stayed in the box only for about 2 days, on the 3rd day he was walking more normally and by day 5...he was crawling up the screens on the windows again. I knew the hip had to be back in, he was bounding all over.
10 days later I took him into the vet to recheck the hip. I told the vet what I thought....that the hip HAD to be back in. Sure enough. The x-rays showed a perfect hip. The vet was pretty surprised. I think he had an infection in the hip which forced it out of the joint and the antibiotic shot cleared it up and allowed the hip to move back.
Madison and Ziggy. Ziggy is a very strange cat. He LOVES water. He likes to drink out of the faucet, watch you shower or bathe and hops up on the toilet after it is flushed to watch the water go down.
Playing with his water dish. 
Each animal is very different. And they each add something to our lives, what that is....maybe only the animal knows.
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